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Yes, they have a limited feature set compared to the normal switches but for things behind a TV or in the shed they are fine.
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Oh just some of the more family oriented features that Firewalla has. Device quarantines, per device rules, nothing major. I'm not too sad, really happy overall with the SE and setting up my VPNs was easy.
You can do per device rules. I have a few on mine to stop all traffic for certain devices unless it's via the VPN.
Sure you could do quarantine as well.
I only have a NAS and main PC that can do 2.5gb.Quite a few, plus it's helpful for uplinks.
Here is my current home setup:
NAS can do 2x2.5gb actually so that will be nice. Will probably get an AP that benefits from it eventually but not many other devices.
Looking for a bit of advice. I have 1gb fibre from brsk being installed soon and want to sort out the WiFi in my house so devices can make full use of the additional bandwidth.
I currently have two amplifi hd's with wireless backhaul (cat5 in the house is not an option). WiFi on the main wired HD is good - around 400mpbs. On the second mesh (two floors up), the speeds are much lower as expected - around 40mbps. That's never been an issue because that's still faster than our current internet and it's only my son's pc that really ever uses it.
What I'm planning to move to:
2 x U7 Pro AP's
2 x Screen beam MoCA adapters 2.5gb
My plan is to keep the brsk router that comes with the ont and disable the wireless on it. I will use the moca adapters to chain the two AP's over coax for a more solid backhaul and have one on the ground floor and one on the middle floor.
Questions:
Is this doable?
Should I get a 2.5gb switch? The only devices initially needing this are the two AP's
Is there a better solution?
I'd love to lay some 5e, but it's just not possible, hence the moca adapters to make use of the extensive coax (not currently used - stream everything).
I've already ordered the moca adapters to test with my amplifi routers, but have held off on the U7's. I can't decide between them or sticking with a traditional mesh like the deco xe75 (would rather future proof with 7 though and they are 6e).
[Edit] Missed that the U7 pro only has a single 2.5gb port, so assuming I could get away with the 5-port unifi switch to ensure I get the 2.5gb backhaul between AP's. I don't think the brsk router has 2.5gb ports to be able to take a dedicated switches place?
I currently have two amplifi hd's with wireless backhaul (cat5 in the house is not an option). WiFi on the main wired HD is good - around 400mpbs. On the second mesh (two floors up), the speeds are much lower as expected - around 40mbps. That's never been an issue because that's still faster than our current internet and it's only my son's pc that really ever uses it.
What I'm planning to move to:
2 x U7 Pro AP's
2 x Screen beam MoCA adapters 2.5gb
My plan is to keep the brsk router that comes with the ont and disable the wireless on it. I will use the moca adapters to chain the two AP's over coax for a more solid backhaul and have one on the ground floor and one on the middle floor.
Questions:
Is this doable?
Should I get a 2.5gb switch? The only devices initially needing this are the two AP's
Is there a better solution?
I'd love to lay some 5e, but it's just not possible, hence the moca adapters to make use of the extensive coax (not currently used - stream everything).
I've already ordered the moca adapters to test with my amplifi routers, but have held off on the U7's. I can't decide between them or sticking with a traditional mesh like the deco xe75 (would rather future proof with 7 though and they are 6e).
[Edit] Missed that the U7 pro only has a single 2.5gb port, so assuming I could get away with the 5-port unifi switch to ensure I get the 2.5gb backhaul between AP's. I don't think the brsk router has 2.5gb ports to be able to take a dedicated switches place?
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Quarantine is an oft requested feature that I don’t think Ubiquiti see value in, but maybe it’ll come. The per device rules thing is new, I’m a bit out of touch with UniFi OS, just need to explore a bit more. I’m not unhappy with having come back
I still rate the firewalla kit very highly, and if their multigig kit wasn’t so expensive I’d have simply upgraded, but 3 and ultimately 6 (3 udm se are now running our houses and my in laws houses, and I’ll be putting 3 in our businesses) multigig firewallas would have set me back a lot more.
I'm not saying it is the fault of the router - I just have my cabinet in my office because its where the fibre comes in. And its noisy
.An ssd is a good shout. You can get 4 TB/8TB ssds with 2,400/4,000 TBW so they'd last ~5 years before they might start to need replacing, depending on what cameras you're using of course (4k would burn through them faster).
I already ordered an NVR anyway
. It should arrive today or tomorrow, lol.
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Can you use the existing coax to pull through some cat6?
From what I can tell of the brsk routers it depends on what they're shipping to you, do you know which model? I can't see any that support 2.5gbe/10gbe/multigig though. So yes you'd need a switch if you wanted the higher speeds. To be honest though 400mpbs on wifi isn't bad at all, do you need more?
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These are set through the network application interface but there's a chance it could still be the default ubnt for username and password. You could try using set-inform to re-adopt if you can login via ssh.
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Couldn't get into it so did a reset. It would adopt but still wouldn't talk to the network. Did another reset and it adopted fine.
Seems when your trying to MESH you need to leave it a while for it to find the "parent" AP....
I don't believe that the flexes fully support custom VLAN profiles, you're limited to ALL or a single defined VLAN. So its highly likely the new VLan Magic (ie the create virtual network tool) won't work with them.
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Yikes, for real? Those switches aren't cheap, nearly £100 each and I have three!
I just found a hostify video on the flex mini and it seems there are some limitations if it's like the mini, been putting off setting up vlans for a while now and thought this new tool would help make it easy. Now I find out it might not even be possible to do properly! Bugger!
I just found a hostify video on the flex mini and it seems there are some limitations if it's like the mini, been putting off setting up vlans for a while now and thought this new tool would help make it easy. Now I find out it might not even be possible to do properly! Bugger!
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Yeah there's a lot of conflicting information - not least in official documentation - but it seems that in reality people have not been able to get proper vlan routing working on the flexes
.I want to state that I do not know for certain - I don't own any flexes so couldn't test for you - but I have read a lot about this sort of problem on the UI forums.
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So I've just setup my unifi NVR. As its a separate device (from the UDM SE) I've gone for putting it - and the cameras - on the default network for now just to get things up and running. When I had the UDM SE running protect I could have the cameras on a different (isolated) vlan but with the SE as the gateway, and access protect through direct connect, so no real issues. However with a separate NVR I can't quite work it out.
I don't really mind - persay - at the moment sticking the cameras on the default unifi vlan, however I'd like to take advantage of the new onvif functionality if they ever bring detections to third party cameras its a significantly cheaper way for me to upgrade to better 4k cameras across the board. But if I do that I'd definitely want the cameras on their own VLAN to be able to make sure they're isolated.
So really the question is how best to approach the Cameras and NVR being on their own vlan, but me being able to access the cameras from certain devices on other vlans?
I don't really mind - persay - at the moment sticking the cameras on the default unifi vlan, however I'd like to take advantage of the new onvif functionality if they ever bring detections to third party cameras its a significantly cheaper way for me to upgrade to better 4k cameras across the board. But if I do that I'd definitely want the cameras on their own VLAN to be able to make sure they're isolated.
So really the question is how best to approach the Cameras and NVR being on their own vlan, but me being able to access the cameras from certain devices on other vlans?
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